Elisabeth Elliot Quotes

Waiting silently is the hardest thing of all.

Elisabeth Elliot

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• I didn't know much about golf growing up.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Golf

• You might say that Richard Wagner was the Queen Victoria of Europe. He had musical children everywhere!

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Children
  • You
  • Queen

• The funny thing is I'm not even Latin. I was constantly getting Latin roles, and I was like, I even was nominated for an award, and I was like, 'Let them know at the NAACP, the first white woman. Let them know I'm totally grateful, but I'm not Latin. I can't do that. I play Latin.'

  

  Vanessa Ferlito
  • Funny
  • Woman
  • Grateful

• We are very private, so we decided from early on that we will keep the press and editors and everybody out of our house.

  

  Iman
  • House
  • Early
  • Press

• They put it on the page because it sounded good or it looked good or they read it in a book somewhere that this is how you structure a script or something, and they just don't get it. It's surprising.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Good
  • Book
  • Page

• Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I would say that the majority of the people I work with are Swedish, very unknown producers and writers but so talented.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • People
  • Work
  • Unknown

• It is rare for a novel to have an ending as good as its middle and beginning...

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Good
  • Beginning

• It was inevitable that I should become a Socialist ultra, a Blanquist, indeed a communist. I carried about a medallion with Marx’s head on it in my pocket. I think I regarded it as a sort of talisman… Marx had a profound critical intelligence and was in some sense even a prophet.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Profound

• The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Nature
  • Evil
  • Violence

• I prefer love scenes to be shot up close with a lot of focus on eyes and mouths. Otherwise it can feel uncomfortable and voyeuristic.

  

  Andrew Davies
  • Up
  • Eyes
  • Focus

• Empowering innovations transform something that is complicated and expensive into something that is so much more simple and affordable that a much larger population can enjoy it.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Simple
  • Empowering

• I love playing. The keyboard is my journal.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.

• I wanted to be a complete player, and I felt like the dunks started to overshadow other parts of my game.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Game
  • Player

• If insurance companies paid for lifestyle-management classes, they would save huge sums of money. We need to see that alternative medicine is now mainstream.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Money
  • Management
  • Insurance

• I've never had trouble finding inspiration for new songs, no matter what I'm doing.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • Inspiration
  • Songs

• It's dangerous to get too far from what they identify you with.

  

  Jimmy Rushing

• Mexico urgently needs a series of structural reforms that will detonate its true economic potential and generate more public welfare.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • True

• I think people who suffer from depression, unless it's post-traumatic, are probably going to struggle with it for their whole life.

  

  Christina Ricci
  • People
  • Life
  • Struggle

• The maternal instinct is in me.

  

  Katy Mixon

• People write about getting sick, they write about tummy trouble, they write about having to wait for a bus. They write about waiting. They write three pages about how long it took them to get a visa. I'm not interested in the boring parts. Everyone has tummy trouble. Everyone waits in line. I don't want to hear about it.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • People
  • Long
  • Waiting

• I'm a Brit and I just put myself on tape, back in London, for a very distant American project that I thought I didn't stand a chance of getting. And then, I got a call about a week after I had submitted my tape, just saying, "They really like you and want to screen test you." So, I flew to L.A. and did the screen test. And then, I met Elijah [Wood] and did a screen test with him. And then, I had a very nerve-wracking few days back home, waiting and waiting and thinking, "This cannot possibly go my way because that would just be too good to be true." And then, it did.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Home

• Waiting silently is the hardest thing of all.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Waiting
  • Silently